not out of nothing: what prompted this blog

As already mentioned, the general idea of applying robotics to the detailed management of productive land has been batting around in my head for years, and I've gone on about it at some length on various occasions, generally behind the walls of The WELL.

Not all of The WELL hides behind a wall, of course. (see "Guest-readable Conferences"), and, as it happens, one recent example (see last paragraph) happened in a world-viewable conference.